The Final Word Cricket Podcast Story Time 252 – The commando and the buried POW camp
It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we stumble by many coincidences onto the story of Australian Test cricket's WWII commando, and his connection to a Japanese POW camp, in a poignant week for Geoff to link these things together. If you're interested, look up the poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
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